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Dear All, after years of trying to resolve this I think I have worked it out. I think what was happening is that I was assigning static IP addresses using DHCP however DHCP continued to also assign dynamic addresses, hence a double up. I have never seen this before, didn't know this was even ...

Dear Mauser,

Yes, understand, the price of hardware RAID has always been prohibitive for me and my applications. Just out of interest I have a multiboot system and rebooted into MX19.4 to take a screenshot of RAID i/o for comparison sake. The image is attached and shows zero i/o activity on the ...

Dear Mauser,

Just checked and here is the mdadm version data.

$ apt list mdadm
Listing... Done
mdadm/stable,now 4.1-11 amd64 [installed]
mdadm/stable 4.1-11 i386

Dear Mauser,

The Linux RAID that I am using is a software RAID using a package called mdadm available in the MX repositories. I am sorry I dont know the version number that is installed but can have a look when I get back to the PC and supply the same. Have used it for a number of years now and ...

Dear All,

Am trying to transition from MX19.4 to MX21, am working my way through my list of things. I have noticed that my mdadm RAID-1 in MX21 appears to behave differently. In MX19.4 I would seldom see HDD activity on conky whereas in MX21 I notice constant and persistent HDD activity as is ...

Dear HF,

First off thank you, the explanations and leads have helped enormously. I now understand a few more things, namely:

1) understand that there is no screensaver in default MX21 install, and
2) The behaviour I observed was a PC that was running yet did not respond to ANY keyboard inputs ...

Thank you HF,

Just to clarify I do not use the suspend state and never have (to my knowledge). If the machine goes into a suspend state then that can only be the result of a default setting. I recall seeing a lot of talk about suspend states and it seemed to raise a level of discomfort with many ...

Dear All,

Been using MX Linux 19.4 for quite some time and decided to try transition to MX Linux 21 recently. Has not felt like a good transition. After installing 21 and when the PC goes into screen saver mode I cannot get back to the login screen unless I press CTRL+ALT+DEL (at least once and ...

Dear All,

Installed MX-21 beta 1 one a Dell Optiplex 9020 (details below) today. I elected a simple install, didn't do anything fancy or complicated, it worked perfectly. Also did a system update afterwards and again, worked perfectly.


System: Host: <filter> Kernel: 5.10.0-8-amd64 x86_64 bits ...

I am using Picasso and Newton is my apt-cacher in another room and connected directly to the router.